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Leftovers from this week's grand opening of Universal's Cabana Bay Beach resort hotel: •Ten shuttle buses run between the hotel and theme parks, and they're painted to resemble woody station wagons. (From a few angles, you can see a surfboard painted on top.) •The mermaids seen on the walls of the hotel's Starbucks are enlarged photos of Weeki Wachee performers. The colorful coffee beans displayed are real; the strung-up coffee cups are not. •The Jack LaLanne Fitness Center has memorabilia of the exercise guru and a larger-than-life — yet not large — statue of him. •The merchandise area is named Universal Gift Shop, as opposed to...

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Before P90X, before Jane Fonda, before Richard Simmons, there was Jack LaLanne. The name of the exercise guru of the 1950s, '60s and '70s will be on the fitness center of the Cabana Bay Beach Resort hotel, now under construction at Universal...

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